It's a..................................................................

BOY!!!!!




And more importantly everything looks nice and healthy!

We are both SO EXCITED, especially Wally!! I would've been really excited either way, but I was kinda hoping it would be a boy too.

It was such an amazing experience to watch him moving and kicking around in there. He kept moving his hand toward his face like he was trying to suck his thumb - so cute!! We could even see that he had the hiccups, haha!

We're still deciding on a name... We have a few ones in mind, but we're keeping them secret until we've decided for sure. :)

Quick Update

We were supposed to find out the gender of the baby today, but unfortunately I had to reschedule our appt for next week due to having the flu (didn't want to infect any other pregnant ladies.) Don't worry everything is fine, I am on the road to recovery at this point. I came down with a fever on Sunday night and called my doctor first thing Monday morning. They gave me a prescription for Tamiflu right away since H1N1 is so rampant here in AZ and they are giving it to all pregnant women with any type of flu symptoms due to the high risk that's been associated with swine flu and pregnancy. I was feeling pretty bad on Monday and Tuesday but after a full day on the tamiflu my symptoms have been pretty mild. Wally's sick too, but so far it hasn't been too bad for him. He got the H1N1 FluMist vaccine a few days before coming down with it, so we think that he might've built up some immunity to it already.

Anyway, I've been getting plenty of rest and taking care of myself. We've been checking the baby's heartbeat with a fetal heartrate monitor and it still sounds just as strong and fast as ever. I'm not crazy about taking the tamiflu since its in Category C and wasn't recommended for pregnant women before H1N1, but I know how dangerous this flu could potentially be for me and the baby so the benefit of taking it outweighs any risk there might be. I just can't believe I caught it after being SO paranoid about getting it. I washed my hands constantly, used hand sanitizer everywhere I went.... but I suppose there's no way to fully protect yourself short of walking around in a plastic bubble.

Sorry I don't have a updated belly pic this time, just haven't felt up to it. I'll try to get one posted by the end of the week. I added another week to our gender poll, so if you haven't cast your vote yet for boy or girl there's still time!

17 weeks

Holy cow, I can't believe I'm almost half-way there!

I've been feeling great, really no complaints. And a big plus is that the weather is really starting to cool off around here, it actually feels like fall - so nice!! Which is good b/c none of my shorts fit anymore, LOL.

But I'm still wearing most of my regular clothes, thanks to the belly band and all those peasant-flowy type shirts that happen to be in style right now. I can still wear my regular jeans and work slacks using the band, and I hope it stays that way. Yeah right, like that's really going to happen - HAHA! I've bought a few maternity shirts, but they're still a little too big at this stage.

Nursery Theme

I started looking at nursery bedding as soon as I found out I was pregnant and fell in love with this "enchanted forest" theme.



Aren't I a good decorator? LOL, j/k - its just the manufacturer's pic... I love the little forest animals, it reminds me of all the forest characters from Bambi, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. I originally looked for something like that from Disney, but the only thing they make is Mickey and Winnie the Pooh stuff. I also like that its gender-neutral, although we have decided to find that out at our next ultrasound in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned... :)

We also found a rocker/glider last weekend that was on sale for a really low price at Burlington Coat Factory, so we grabbed it. The color of it is fern, so it will go perfect (I hope) with the forest bedding. Right now its in our room, since we haven't converted the guest room yet and there isn't enough room in there for it now. Its soooo comfortable, I can't wait to rock our baby in it!

Baby's first item of clothing

I know its kinda early to be buying baby clothes just yet, but I saw this on clearance online and thought it was just too adorable to pass up. As you probably know, Wally is a HUGE A's fan and the baby is going to be born right around Spring Training. We don't know if we'll be able to make it to a game with a newborn, but at least he/she will be sporting it in spirit.

Wally wants a matching one. And no, not a matching t-shirt... he wants an actual adult-size onesie.

Update - 15 weeks (or so)

Wow! I can't believe I haven't posted anything in over a month! Didn't September just start??!! Seriously, I don't know what happened to the last 4 weeks... sorry for the lack of blogging!

I'm really loving this whole 2nd trimester phase. I know I got off pretty light with morning sickness, but the fatigue and exhaustion hit me pretty hard in the 1st tri. I actually have energy to do stuff now and no longer feel like the living dead. Getting a decent work out at the gym out is now physically possible (I said possible, making it to the gym is another thing) and I can make it through a whole day of work without having to put my head down on my desk in complete exhaustion. I do have one complaint though... my skin seems to think I'm a teenager again and I read that you shouldn't use any kind of acne face wash/cream because of something to do with the salicylic acid being bad for the baby. *Sigh*.... at least I don't have back-to-school picture day to worry about.

I had another routine doctor visit this last friday. My doc used a hand-held doppler heart monitor to read the baby's heartbeat, she said it sounds nice and healthy. Other than that, it was pretty uneventful. Oh - my doctor is pregnant too, she'll be on maternity leave when I go in for my next appt in a month. I can't remember how many other kids she has, but I really like the fact that she's a mother and actually knows how everything feels.

Our next visit will be the one where we can find out the sex. We're still undecided whether we want to find out or not. We were thinking we didn't want to find out, but now curiosity is getting the better of us. Or I should say me rather than us, Wally is much more patient than I am :) I just don't like calling the baby "it," I'd rather refer to "it" as he or she. Anyway, we'll see...

Here is my 15 week and 3 day belly pic.

Visit from Dad and 12 week belly pic

No, you didn't miss this one if you have been checking my blog and haven't seen anything new since my 11 week post. This is now a few weeks old... I started it on the date stamped but just never got around to posting it. Sorry, I've been a bad blogger!



These pictures are from when my dad came to visit us late last month. He had to come out to the Qualcomm office in Chandler for business early in the week and then decided to spend the rest of the week through Sunday with us. I love it when his company sends him out here on business, its so nice to be able to spend some extra time with him now and then.


Here's us at a Diamondbacks game.

And here are my 12 week belly pics. I tried to get my face in the shot, but that never works out well with self-taken mirror pics :)